Stokely Carmichael – Part 1: The Initiator of Black Power

I have always been fascinated by the strategic use of language and when I stumbled upon the following passage of Joshua Meyrowitz’s “No sense of Place” I decided to dedicate my attention to Carmichael’s rhetorical style.

Tupac’s “Changes” vs. Obama’s “Change we can believe in”

Through his moving rhetoric and his charisma Barack Obama has conquered the entire world, some German newspapers called him even the world’s president (“Weltpraesident“). But what about the people living in the poor and degenerated areas of the United States? Can Obama’s words follow up with deeds to help improve their living condition and be [...]